Weezer is closing out the summer with a new full-length record, simply titled Weezer and nicknamed “the Gold Album” by fans, arriving August 21 via Reprise/Warner Records. It’s the band’s twentieth studio album and their first complete full-length since 2021’s Van Weezer, following the four-part SZNZ mini-album series released in 2022.
The record grew out of sessions in Orange County, where the group went back to writing and rehearsing together in one room rather than piecing songs together remotely. Drummer Pat Wilson and guitarist Brian Bell both contributed songwriting alongside frontman Rivers Cuomo — something longtime fans have been asking for since the band’s earliest days. Producers Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume (formerly known as Kenny Beats) took contrasting approaches in the studio, with Blume pushing for a raw, “rock band in a room” feel: no click track, no pitch correction, drums cut live with all four members playing together.
Lead single “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” featuring Karly Hartzman of the band Wednesday, has already arrived with a music video, alongside earlier tracks “Shine Again” and “C.E.O.” Weezer will support the album with a 32-date fall North American tour, “The Gathering,” kicking off September 8 in Sacramento, with The Shins and Silversun Pickups as support.
